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Ezor Eliyahu Rabbi Eliyahu HaCohen Psalms Jerusalem 1894. ספר אזור אליהו ירושלים
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אזור אליהו, לרבי אליהו הכהן. ירושלים, תרנ”ד
Dayyan of Smyrna; almoner and preacher; died 1729. Elijah produced over thirty works, of which the principal, according to Wunderbar (“Orient, Lit.” p. 579), are as follows: “Midrash Eliyahu,” eleven funeral sermons and a commentary on the Talmudic sayings relative to the Roll of Esther (Constantinople, 1693); “Midrash ha-Izmiri,” homilies (ib. 1695); “Midrash Talpiyyot,” glosses and comments taken from three hundred works and containing 926

(the numerical value of the word “Talpiyyot”) paragraphs in alphabetical order: only the first part, from “alef” to “kaf,” was published (Amsterdam, 1698); “Me’il Ẓedaḳah,” a treatise on charity (ib. 1704); “Shebeṭ Musar,” on ethics, the best known of his works, divided into fifty-two chapters corresponding to the weeks of the year, and taken for the most part from the “Or Ḳadmon” of Moses Ḥagis, the “Tokaḥot” of the Spanish poets, the “Orḥot Ḥayyim,” and the “Roḳeaḥ” of Eleazar of Worms (Constantinople, 1712); “Megalleh Ẓefunot,” cabalistic treatises (Porizk, 1785); “She’elot u-Teshubot,” responsa (Sudilkov, 1796); “Minḥat Eliyahu,” sermons (Salonica, 1824); “Semukim le-‘Ad,” homiletic treatise on the parashiyyot (ib. 1826);” We-Lo ‘Od Ella,” a treatise on the Talmudic and Midrashic passages beginning with these words (Smyrna, 1853).